Resting Place For Coffin of Henry VIII
On 14 February 1547 the coffin of Henry VIII lay overnight at Syon, en-route from Westminster for burial at Windsor. Twelve years before in 1535 a Franciscan friar named William Peyto (Peto, Petow), d. 1558 or 1559, had preached before the King at Greenwich “that God's judgements were ready to fall upon his head and that dogs would lick his blood, as they had done to Ahab”. The prophecy was said to have been fulfilled during this night at Syon, when some “corrupted matter of a bloody colour” fell from the coffin to the floor.
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